Check-list for registering railway-passengers



(No Model.)

S.D. ELDRED.

GHI-:dx LIST Pon RBGISTBRING RAILWAY PASSENGERS.` No. 297,588. Patented Apr. l29,1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL n. ELDEED, E MINONK, ILLINOIS.

CHECK-LIST FOR R-EGISTERING RAILWAY-PASSENGERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 297,588, dated April 29, 1884.

- Appncati'n flied `Jpn@ 9; lees. (No modali To all whom it ifrtwy concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. ELDRED, of

' Minonk, Illinois, have invented a new and usefulv Improvement in Check-Lists for Registering Railway-Passengers, of which the following is a description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings for explanation and illustration,

My invention is to provide a check-list for registering the passengers in each car,;their entrance, destination, and how passage is paid, and to enable the conductor to determine who has paid and who has not; andit consistsin the car check-list shown in the drawings. Thus in the drawings, which is only a part of a complete car-list, P L denotes the platform W C, the closet; S, the stove; and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are so many seats in the car, each .oi which accommodates two passengers, all the seats in the car being numbered in consecutive order from l to as many as there may be in a car. The check-list contains a full diagram v0i all the seats with their appropriate numbers, andv in each seat are a number of gures and letters, as shown in the drawings. The figures, from 1 to 20, indicate the station-numbers, and

are arranged at each end of each seat, and the conductor punch-marks the igure to denote the station Where the passenger is taken up and the one to which he is going in the proper side of each. Thus in seat No. 1 a passenger enters at station No. 1, and takes a seat on the inner side of seatl, and is going to station 6, and accordingly the conductor lpunches 1 and 6 on that side row of figures in seat No.

1. If he pays by ticket, the conductor `makes a punch-mark opposite T; by half-ticket, op` posite, t T, cash, C5 one-half cash; t C, pass, 13; mileage-ticket, M; couponticket, 0o. The same characters appear in every seat in the diagram. On excursions the aisle may be lled with figures opposite the seats to be used if needed. 24.0 is the number ofthe cari The other words- Date, Gonductor7 and Trip NOW-explain themselves, and are to be properly filled up by the conductor. Room is left for several punchmarks, so as to allow for dierent occupants of the seats. When the conductors run is coinpleted, he passes the check-list in to the auditing officer and settles with him according to its requirements, and produces the vouchers and money therefor. I

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows: The check-list herein described, containing a diagram of the interior arrangement of seats in a passenger-car, upon which the numbers of seats, ,station-numbers, and a series of letters indicating manner of payment of fare, are ,all combined substantially as and for the purposes described.

In witness that I claim the invention set forth in this application I have hereto set my hand, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 11th day` 

